“Thank you Bunnings, T-Shirt World and Rachel! Thank you also to the City of Wodonga for staging this wonderful, free event for our community. We were proud to be part of it and we’ll be back bigger and better next year,” she says.

“Thank you to all our staff from Family and Children’s Services and Youth Services who volunteered their time in the lead up to the Fair and attended on the day.

“A special thanks to Bonnie the golden retriever, who works at our Wodonga office with her owner Lynn, supporting children and you people.”

Among our favourite annual activities organised by our Health and Wellbeing Committee is a “Wear your PJs to work Day”.

Our staff being the enthusiastic people they are, many take this a step further and decide to wear “onesies”, a one-piece outfit, instead of PJs.

This year, the dress up day raised money for our children’s programs.

“Team Onesie” staff dressed as tigers, a unicorn and a rabbit.

“Team PJs” included a male staff member who dressed in his wife’s PJs, silk polka dots (our CEO), and Bonnie the golden retriever who wore a PJ top.

Some time-poor staff dropped their children off at school and child care while dressed in PJs and novelty slippers.

Our Family and Children’s Services Manager Claire Anderson said: “We like to have fun at work but we take our work seriously. There is nothing we are more passionate about than out children’s programs.

“Our mission is to support people to achieve their full potential.

“Last year our family and children’s team counselled more than 180 local children who had experiences trauma such as domestic violence.”

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live, and recognise their continuing connection to the land, water and community. We pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging.